The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-06
Montpelier and Vicinity.

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JAMES r. LANGDoN has been i'll for several
days past.
THE Merry Workers took upwards of
S47 at their fair on Friday.
SEVEN persons united with the Methodist
church last Sunday morning.
Mr.. AND Mrs. w. T. DEWEY have
daughter, and Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. Waterman
a son.
THE wonderful mechanical castle target"
is doing a thriving business in Rutland at
present
THE Woman's Indian Association will
Thursday afternoon.
IT is announced that work on the new
government building to be erected in this
place will begin this month.
THE Montpelier orchestra has been en-
gagged to furnish music for the commence
ment exercises at Goddard Seminary in June.
OWING to the illness of the pastor, Rev.
Mr.. Hincks, the regular preaching services
at Bethany church were omitted on Sunday.
W. II. HERRIcK has moved into the Lucy
Cook house on Liberty street recently pur-
chased for him by his father, King Herrick.
STATE AUDITOR POWELL was in town last
Thursday for the first time in several
months. He recently spent month in
Nebraska.
THERE is to be an Easter concert at
Bethany church at half-past six o'clock Sun
day evening and one at Trinity church at
seven o'clock.
Mrs. GEORGE LANGDoN is compelled to
remain in Montpelier by the sudden illness
of Mrs. Wright who was to accompany
her to New York.
GEORGE II. WILDER is at home from Bos-
ton for few days helping his father, in the
absence from the store of the regular clerk,
Miss Addie Slack.
Mrs. w. A. BRIGGS has returned from
Buffalo, n. Y, and Mrs. Hiram Carleton
and daughter from a protracted visit to
friends in Keeseville n. Y.
The general delivery of the Montpelier
post-office will be closed during Friday of
A. NJ. and from 4 90 to 600 P. NJ.
A FAST DAY service will be held in the
vestry of the Church of the Messiah at seven
o'clock Friday evening. Subject, System
in the Religious Training of the Young"
A CORRESPONDENT suggests that the 4th
of May next will be the one hundredth
anniversary of the founding of Montpelier,
and that it would be well to commemorate
the occasion in some way.
FRANK b. WILSON has been compelled,
by reason of ill-health, to resign his position
in the establishment of Woolson Brothers
and returned on Friday, with his mother, to
their home in Rockland, Maine.
A UNION Fast day service of the Baptist
Congregational and Methodist congregations
will be held in the Baptist church at eleven
o'clock Friday forenoon. "The Gospel
Needs of Montpelier " will be the subject OF
the discourse.
The dry-goods stores of this village will
be closed at six o'clock on Wednesday and
Thursday evenings until October lst, and
the millinery stores will be closed at the
same time, except during the months o.
May and June.
The entertainments by the Apollo Clul
will probably be given about the middle o.
May and promise to be much the best evel
given by the club. Some exceptionally fin,
specialties will be introduced, and the pro
gramme will be entirely new. Charles A
Owler has been chosen stage manager.
LETTERS uncalled for at the Montpelie
(Vt.) post-office April 2, 1887
Mrs. Mary Colby, Prentis Clark,
Carrie l.. Nourse, q. A. Hutchinson,
| Miss Emma q. Ward, Alfred NJ. Nelson,
George BEDFORD, Edward &. Wockhagemk
| Frank II. Bascom, Eli Wheeler.
Thomas Colby,
Parties applying for any of the above mus
say advertised " and give the date.
GEORGE w. WING, Postmaster.
NOTWITHSTANDING the movementin Swan
ton toward procuring water-works, it is sale
that the Swanton Suspender Company
whose works were burned some days ago, il
looking for another place to locate in, il
chief objection to rebuilding in SwantoI
being the lack of protection against fire
Why not try Montpelier? We have TIL,
most perfect protection against fire there Il
in the state.
THE morning services at the Church o
the Messiah on Sunday next will take tn,